Lamp-wick.



' No. 699,432. Patented May B, I902.

' H. WESTON.

LAMP WIOK.

(Application filed July 25, 1901.) (No Medal.)

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UNlTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY WESTON, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

LAM P-WICK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 699, dated May 6, 1902' Application filed July 25,1901. Serial No. 69,622. (No model.)

To all whom it'mcty concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY WESTON, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Lamp-Wicks, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in lamp-wicks; and the object of my invention is to furnish av lamp-wick which maybe instantly and perfectly trimmed without the use of knife or scissors if need be.

My wick is constructed of a number of horizontal removable sections or lifts which are secured to one another in such a manner that they may be successively removed after they have been charred, leaving the next section in condition to be lighted without further preparation or trimming, or the lower portion of the wick may be made continuous and the upper portion may be made in removable sec tions.

In the accompanying drawings, in which similar letters of reference indicate similar parts throughout the several views, Figure l is a front elevation of a flat lamp-wick made according to my plan; Fig. 2, a side elevation of the same; Fig. 3, a plan of a circular wick.

a is a lamp-wick which may be entirely or partly constructed of horizontal sections or lifts b. The lifts b may be made separately and sewed or otherwise suitably secured one to the other, or they may be cut from a solid piece of wick, or they may be formed each one separately, placed one on top of the other and held in place by the wick-tube; but in any case they are so made that while in ordinary use they will preserve their original relative positions. If made separately and not fastened together, they would rest upon a solid wick, like the portion a, Figs. 1 and 2,- which would serve not only to support them, but also to carry oil from the reservoir to them.- When it is necessary tovtrim the wick, the upper section or lift, which has been charred, is torn or cut away or lifted off, leaving the next section in perfect shape and condition for lighting and insuring a wick which will maintain a perfectly symmetrical flame.

The ends of the lifts b are preferably round ed off, as shown at '0', so as to prevent'irreg'iu lar tongues of flame at these points, and the lifts are preferably secured one to the other in such a manner as to insure their ready de-' tachment without leaving irregularities which would result in an imperfect flame. V

In Fig. 1 the upper lift is shown as partially detached from the next under one.

The lifts are all constructed of a porous combustible material, woven cotton, felt, or the like, which will draw the oil by capillary attraction from the oil-reservoir to the top of the wick.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- A lamp-wick the upper part of which is constructed of a series of separate detachable combustible horizontal sections or lifts.

HENRY WESTON. 

